Articles

  • Sensei Shuji Maruyama's New Year's Message

    Happy New Year! I hope that everyone welcomed 2010 with happy feelings.

  • Aikido Kokikai Women’s Seminar

    The first Aikido Kokikai Women’s Seminar was held on Saturday afternoon, October 3, at the Defensive Arts Center in Philadelphia. Cecelia Ricciotti Sensei organized the seminar and 24 women were in attendance.

  • Home Invasion – A True Story

    I am a fortyish, smallish (5’3”) professional woman living in Center City Philadelphia for the past 10 years. I had thought it might be fun to learn a martial art and learned that Aikido was one martial art that I could do without having my size or age put me at a disadvantage. So I joined Philadelphia Aikido.

  • Trauma T1571

    Cecelia Ricciotti Sensei of Philadelphia recently received the following letter from a former student. Don't miss the link to the full article on Jason's own site.

  • Kokikai Russia II

    I didn't know what to expect once we arrived in Russia. I did picture little old women standing in line for bread and little old men breaking up old wooded fences for fire wood. They actually all had plenty of bread and central heat. The homes were clean, yet simple and the atmosphere was bright, although the weather was cold and cloudy, just like Rochester.

  • Kokikai Russia

    Paul Gardner (Kokikai Eastern Sky) and I just returned from the second Kokikai Seminar in Russia. Kokikai Russia started in June of last year, when Chad Harmer (SNJ Kokikai) and I went to Voronezh to present a 3 day Kokikai Aikido Seminar.

  • From The Land of The Rising Sun

    Hello everyone!  My name is Joseph Pielech and I am one of Sensei's foreign students in Japan.  Originally, I am from New Jersey and I came to Japan in May, 2002 after earning my Master's degree in Linguistics from West Virginia University.  I began my Kokikai journey shortly thereafter in the summer of 2002 after spying on Sensei for several weeks.  Allow me to explain...

  • Overcoming Obstacles to Practice

    Recently a student wrote from Japan where he was on an extended trip. He was taking a calligraphy class and he asked the teacher, "How should I do this brush stroke?" She answered, "Boldly!"

  • On Common Sense

    Common sense sounds like something everyone should be able to understand without an explanation. Yet what one person may call common sense may seem senseless to another. Common practices of etiquette provide many examples.

  • Thoughts on selecting a school

    If you're interested in studying a martial art and are looking for a school or "dojo", you may wonder how you can find a good one. There is, unfortunately, no standardized accreditation for the martial arts.